by Brendan Jackson | Sep 4, 2025 | Sites of Memory
Sandwell Road, West Bromwich Image: Sandwell Road, 2025. After the declaration of war in August 1914, the West Bromwich Territorials return from their training in Rhyl, march down to the Drill Hall at Carters Green and get their harness and guns in good order. The...
by Brendan Jackson | Sep 4, 2025 | Sites of Memory
National Army Museum, London Image: Exhibition area in the Global Role gallery. The National Army Museum can be found next to the Royal Hospital Chelsea, in London. Purpose-built in the 1970s, where one wing of the hospital had been destroyed in the Blitz. Housing...
by Brendan Jackson | Sep 4, 2025 | Sites of Memory
The Caucasus Mountains Image: Mountains near Mestia in northwest Georgia. A land far off, and higher as they drew A low green shore, backed up by mountains blue, Cleft here and there, all saw, ’twixt hope and fear – The Life and Death of Jason, William Morris, 1867....
by Brendan Jackson | Sep 4, 2025 | Sites of Memory
Metro, West Bromwich Image: West Bromwich Central metro. The Metro tram stop at West Bromwich Central opened in 1999, running along the former line of the Great Western Railway, from Birmingham to Wolverhampton. Today, a bus station sits opposite, and the distictive...
by Brendan Jackson | Sep 4, 2025 | Sites of Memory
Tbilisi Image: The old town, Tbilisi, 2025. Morgan Philips Price, a correspondent for the Manchester Guardian sends a postcard to Anna Maria Philips dated 13 March 1917. “Just a line to say I am well. Most exciting times. I knew this was coming sooner or later but did...
by Brendan Jackson | Sep 4, 2025 | Sites of Memory
Khariton Akhvlediani Museum of Adjara Image: Bird display in the museum. This museum in Batumi dates back to 1908, originally founded as a children’s museum by a group of school teachers. In 2005 it was renamed after Khariton Akhvlediani, a scientist and former...
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